Apparently this is one of two main underpins of educator's current fetish with 'cooperative learning'.
The idea boils down to the belief that the act of explaining something to a 'novice' forces the ' expert" to re-evaluate and re-organize their own thoughts, form stronger links with other concepts etc in addition to helping the novice.
Personally, I think the whole thing is a crock - if it were true then I would expect most elementary educators would be experts at teaching elementsry Maths by now - and they are not.
Cooperative learning is being thrown out as an obstacle to my DD receiving individualized differentiated instruction and I am getting really ticked off just thinking about it - [rant off]
One a more rational note. Have any parents here encountered this and what strategies other than pulling out of public education entirely helped you to successfully navigate through these particular foggy and shoal infested waters?
Last edited by madeinuk; 04/24/15 03:47 AM.
